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...much of the tropical world has been imported into Seagaia. Every afternoon at 3 is the Fiesta del Sol, in which performers in big bouffant skirts, styled to look like coral reefs and Neptune's daughters, prance about and sing tunes like Gloria Estefan's The Rhythm Is Gonna Get Ya. As the party builds to a climax, a mist spreads across the sea, and water streams out from the fake cliffsides. "It doesn't look like Japan here," said Mayumi Murano, a 21-year-old worker at a milk company, who came with two friends during a special preview...
...There's something wrong," sex educator Sol Gordon once said, "with a country that says, 'Sex is dirty, save it for someone you love.' " But families at least agreed on a social standard that preached, if not practiced, the virtues of restraint and of linking sex to emotional commitment and marriage. "It used to be easy to say it's just wrong to have sex before marriage. You could expect churches to say that, adults from many walks of life to somehow communicate that," notes Peter Benson, president of Minneapolis-based Search Institute, a research organization specializing in child...
...late fifties and early sixties. Since this time, however, Latino writers have produced a great quantity of prose that has eagerly been published by those seeking to capitalize on new ethnic literature and by independent publishing houses such as Open Hand Press, Arte Publico Press and Quinto Sol International...
...judges may feel indebted to senators who appointed them. Or state judges may be connected to governors or lawyers who nominated them. In a judicial system without checks and popular participation, these judges might engage in corrupt political dealings and remain unaccountable to the public. The current case of Sol Wachtler, chief judge of New York State, who has resigned from the bench in the wake of charges that he threatened to extort money from a woman with whom he had an affair, is indicative of such improprieties...
WITH HIS PHOTO-OP JAW, LUSTROUS CREST OF HAIR and baritone voice, Sol Wachtler could have played a judge on television if he had not actually been one. As chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Wachtler headed one of the nation's most influential state courts. State Republican leaders wanted him to challenge Mario Cuomo if the New York Governor chose to run again in 1994. But nobody is talking much about Wachtler's political future any longer. It's hard to envision the campaign trail of a man under house arrest...